Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.

A curious mind is never bored.

There's nothing in life you can't accomplish, it's yours to have to be accomplished!

Under normal periods any man's success hinges about five percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

I don't think success is what we've made of ourselves; I think it's what we've made of others.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.